Strong's G2478 ἰσχυρός (ischyros)

And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings with him, and cut to pieces the giants in Ashteroth, and Karnaim, and strong nations with them, and the Emim in the city Shaveh.

And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of the famine that shall be after this, for it shall be very grievous.

And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan; and they bewailed him with a great and very sore lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

And the sounds of the trumpet were waxing very much louder. Moses spoke, and God answered him with a voice.

and ye shall see the land, what it is, and the people that dwells on it, whether it is strong or weak, or whether they are few or many.

But the men that went up together with him said, We will not go up, for we shall not by any means be able to go up against the nation, for it is much stronger than we.

And he said, Thou shalt not pass through me; and Edom went forth to meet him with a great host, and a mighty hand.

And having seen the Kenite, he took up his parable and said, Thy dwelling place is strong; Yet though thou shouldest put thy nest in a rock,

to destroy nations great and stronger than thou before thy face, to bring thee in, to give thee their land to inherit, as thou hast it this day.

And when the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land, into which thou goest to possess it, and shall remove great nations from before thee, the Hittite, and Girgashite, and Amorite, and Canaanite, and Perizzite, and Hivite, and Jebusite, seven nations more numerous and stronger than you,

Hear, O Israel: Thou goest this day across Jordan to inherit nations greater and stronger than yourselves, cities great and walled up to heaven;

And now suffer me utterly to destroy them, and I will blot out their name from under heaven, and will make of thee a nation great and strong, and more numerous than this.

For the Lord your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great, and strong, and terrible God, who does not accept persons, nor will he by any means accept a bribe:

then the Lord shall cast out all these nations before you, and ye shall inherit great nations and stronger than yourselves.

That all the nations of the earth might know, that the power of the Lord is mighty, and that ye might worship the Lord our God in every work.

And the priests sounded with the trumpets: and when the people heard the trumpets, all the people shouted at once with a loud and strong shout; and all the wall fell round about, and all the people went up into the city:

then they were greatly terrified by them, for the king knew that Gibeon was a great city, as one of the chief cities, and all its men were mighty.

And the Lord shall destroy them before you, even great and strong nations; and no one has stood before us until this day.

Then went down the remnant to the strong, The people of the Lord went down for him among the mighty ones from me.

When the hoofs of the horse were entangled, His mighty ones earnestly hastened

And the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, The Lord is with thee, thou mighty in strength.

And there was a strong tower in the midst of the city; and thither all the men and the women of the city fled, and shut the door without them, and went up on the roof of the tower.

And he said to them, Meat came forth of the eater, And sweetness out of the strong: and they could not tell the riddle for three days.

And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day, before sunrise, What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a lion? and Samson said to them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, Ye would not have known my riddle.

And Absalom sent to Ahithophel the Theconite, the counselor of David, from his city, from Giloh, where he was sacrificing: and there was a strong conspiracy; and the people with Absalom were increasingly numerous.

As for the Mighty One, his way is blameless: The word of the Lord is strong and tried in the fire: He is a protector to all that put their trust in him.

Who is strong, but the Lord? And who will be a Creator except our God?

It is the Mighty One who strengthens me with might, And has prepared my way without fault.

The Lord who avenges me is strong, Chastening the nations under me,

For my house is not so with the Mighty One: For he has made an everlasting covenant with me, Ready, guarded at every time; For all my salvation and all my desire is, That the wicked should not flourish.

And the man Jeroboam was very strong; and Solomon saw the young man that he was active, and he set him over the levies of the house of Joseph.

And he carried Jehoiachin away to Babylon, and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his eunuchs: and he carried away the mighty men of the land into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

And these were the heads of the houses of their families; Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valor, men of renown, heads of the houses of their families.

And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Ibsam, and Shemuel, chiefs of their fathers’ houses belonging to Tola, men of might according to their generations; their number in the days of David was twenty and two thousand and six hundred.

And with them, according to their generations, according to the houses of their families, were men mighty to set armies in array for war, thirty and six thousand, for they had multiplied their wives and children.

And their brethren among all the families of Issachar, also mighty men, were eighty-seven thousand—this was the number of them all.

And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of houses of families, mighty men; and their number was twenty and two thousand and thirty-four.

And their number according to their generations (they were chiefs of their fathers’ houses, men of might), was twenty thousand and two hundred.

All these were the sons of Jediael, chiefs of their families, men of might, seventeen thousand and two hundred, going forth to war with might.

All these were the sons of Asher, all heads of families, choice, mighty men, chief leaders: their number for battle array—their number was twenty-six thousand men.

And the sons of Ulam were mighty men, bending the bow, and multiplying sons and grandsons, a hundred and fifty. All these were of the sons of Benjamin.

and their brethren, chiefs of their families, a thousand seven hundred and sixty, mighty men for the work of the ministration of the house of God.

And from Gad these separated themselves to David from the wilderness, strong mighty men of war, bearing shields and spears, and their faces were as the face of a lion, and they were nimble as roes upon the mountains in speed.

There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, which have ruled over all countries beyond the river; and toll, tribute, and custom, was paid unto them.

And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments:

Nevertheless for thy great mercies' sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.

Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.

And thou hast said, What does the Mighty One know? Does he judge in the dark?

Behold, all these things the Mighty One works In a threefold manner with a man.

For there is one that says to the Mighty One, I have received blessings; I will not take a pledge:

Behold, the Mighty One shall prevail by his strength: For who is powerful as he is?

Behold, the Mighty One is great, and we shall not know him: The number of his years is even infinite.

The Mighty One shall thunder wonderfully with his voice: For he has done great things which we knew not;

And from the breath of the Mighty One he will send frost; And he guides the water in whatever way he pleases.

Wilt thou establish with him foundations for the ancient heavens? They are strong as a molten mirror.

God is a righteous judge, and strong, and patient, Not inflicting vengeance every day.

For a man’s own lips become a strong snare to him, And he is caught with the lips of his own mouth.

And when he secured the fountains of the earth:

When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

A man slow to anger is better than a strong man; And he that governs his temper better than he that takes a city.

A secret gift calms anger: But he that forbears to give stirs up strong wrath.

A wise man is better than a strong man; And a man who has prudence than a large estate.

the rabbits also are a feeble race, who make their houses in the rocks.

A lion's whelp, stronger than all other beasts, which turns not away, nor fears any beast;

If anything has been, its name has already been called: And it is known what man is; Neither can he contend with him who is stronger than he.

therefore, behold, the Lord brings up upon you the water of the river, strong and abundant, even the king of the Assyrians, and his glory: and he shall come up over every valley of yours, and shall walk over every wall of yours:

Thus saith the Lord, With a strong hand they revolt from the course of the way of this people, saying,

and the remnant of the strong bows of the sons of Kedar shall be small: for the Lord God of Israel has spoken it.

In that day God shall bring his holy and great and strong sword upon the dragon, even the serpent that flees, upon the dragon, the crooked serpent: he shall destroy the dragon.

I am a strong city, a city in a siege: in vain shall I water it; for it shall be taken by night, and by day the wall shall fall.

Behold, the anger of the Lord is strong and severe, as descending hail where there is no shelter, violently descending; as a great body of water sweeping away the soil, he shall make rest for the land.

he shall dwell in a high cave of a strong rock: bread shall be given him, and his water shall be sure.

Thus saith the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty water;

who brought forth chariots and horse, and a mighty multitude: but they have lain down, and shall not rise: they are extinct, as quenched flax.

Therefore he shall inherit many, and he shall divide the spoils of the mighty; because his soul was delivered to death: and he was numbered among the transgressors; and he bore the sins of many, and was delivered because of their iniquities.

They are all mighty men:

Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, and let not the strong man boast in his strength, and let not the rich man boast in his wealth;

Why do they fear, and turn back? even because their mighty men shall be slain: they have utterly fled, and being hemmed in they have not rallied, saith the Lord.

Let not the swift flee, and let not the mighty man escape to the north: the forces at Euphrates are become feeble, and they have fallen.

But their Redeemer is strong; the Lord Almighty is his name: he will enter into judgment with his adversaries, that he may destroy the earth;

Behold, he shall look upon her as an eagle, and spread forth his wings over her strongholds; and the heart of the mighty men of Edom shall be in that day as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

How will ye say, We are strong, and men strong for war?

And their mighty ones shall be over them, and their prince shall proceed of themselves; and I will gather them, and they shall return to me: for who is this that has set his heart to return to me? saith the Lord.

Granting mercy to thousands, and recompensing the sins of the fathers into the bosoms of their children after them: the great, the strong God;

Cry to me, and I will answer thee, and I will declare to thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

The Lord has cut off All my strong men from the midst of me: He has summoned against me a time For crushing my choice men: The Lord has trodden a winepress For the virgin daughter of Judah: For these things I weep.

Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and I will break his strong and outstretched arms, and will smite down his sword out of his hand.

The weak one ye have not strengthened, and the sick ye have not cherished, and the bruised ye have not bound up, and the stray one ye have not turned back, and the lost ye have not sought; and the strong ye have wearied with labor.

I will seek that which is lost, and I will recover the stray one, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen the fainting, and will guard the strong, and will feed them with judgment.

Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will separate between the strong sheep and the weak sheep.

And at the end of the ten days their countenances appeared fairer and stouter in flesh than the children that fed at the king’s table.

Thou, O king, art a king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given a powerful and strong and honorable kingdom,

and a fourth kingdom, which shall be strong as iron: as iron beats to powder and subdues all things, so shall it beat to powder and subdue.

And whereas the toes of the feet were part of iron and part of earthenware, part of the kingdom shall be strong, and part of it shall be broken.

And he commanded mighty men to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.

how great and mighty they are: his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his power to all generations.

And when he drew near to the den, he cried with a loud voice, Daniel, servant of the living God, has thy God, whom thou servest continually, been able to deliver thee from the lion’s mouth?

After this one I looked, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and exceedingly strong, and its teeth were of iron; devouring and crushing to atoms, and it trampled the remainder with its feet: and it was altogether different from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.

And out of one of them came forth one strong horn, and it grew very great toward the south, and toward the host:

And his power shall be great, and he shall destroy wonderfully, and prosper, and practice, and shall destroy mighty men, and the holy people.

And his strength and his heart shall be stirred up against the king of the south with a great force; and the king of the south shall engage in war with a great and very strong force; but his forces shall not stand, for they shall devise plans against him:

For a strong and innumerable nation is come up against my land, their teeth are lion’s teeth, and their back teeth those of a lion’s whelp.

for a day of darkness and gloominess is near, a day of cloud and mist: a numerous and strong people shall be spread upon the mountains as the morning; there has not been from the beginning one like it, and after it there shall not be again even to the years of many generations.

As the sound of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, and as the sound of a flame of fire devouring stubble, and as a numerous and strong people setting themselves in array for battle.

And the Lord shall utter his voice before his host: for his camp is very great: for the execution of his words is mighty: for the day of the Lord is great, very glorious, and who shall be able to resist it?

Nevertheless I cut off the Amorite from before them, whose height was as the height of a cedar, and he was strong as an oak; and I dried up his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

For I know your many transgressions, and your sins are great, trampling on the just, taking bribes, and turning aside the judgment of the poor in the gates.

And he shall judge among many peoples, and shall rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into sickles; and nation shall no more lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn to war anymore.

And I will make her that was bruised a remnant, and her that was rejected a mighty nation: and the Lord shall reign over them in Mount Zion from henceforth, even forever.

I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:

Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.

But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.

And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.

No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house.

John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:

When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace:

But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.

And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.